ColonSentry

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common non-skin cancer diagnosed in men and women in the USA and worldwide. While it has been clearly established that screening for CRC, using a variety of methods, is cost effective and has a significant impact on overall survival, screening rates have proven to be sub-optimal. It has been long conjectured that a simple blood-based test, with a specimen drawn at a routine doctor's office visit, would encourage those individuals who have refused or ignored screening recommendations to undergo screening...

GeneNews Limited (TSX:GEN) is a molecular diagnostics company, uniquely positioned to deliver on the promise of personalized medicine. GeneNews has developed and patented the Sentinel Principle(®), an innovative approach to identify clinically actionable disease biomarkers from the blood transcriptome. Novel biomarker panels have been identified to address unmet clinical needs in a broad spectrum of malignancy, including those for oncology, cardiovascular, metabolic and neurological related disorders. Currently available products and services from GeneNews are: ColonSentry™, the world's first blood-based molecular test for colorectal cancer, and; the SentinelGX™ Pharmacogenomic and Companion Diagnostic BloodRNA™ services, established to effectively support pharmaceutical partners in their companion diagnostic, development efforts...